Hairpin



R. S. BERRY AND W. H. McGEE.

HAlRPlN.. APP'LICATIONFILED MAY12,1919.

Patented Nov. 30,1920.-

INVENTORS:

UNITED STATES RENI S. BERRY AND WILLIAM H. MCGEE, OE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; SAID BERRY PATENT OFFICE.

ASSIGNOR 'ro SAID McGEE.

HAIRPIN'.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Xov. 30. 1920.

Application filed May 12, 1919. Serial No. 296,524.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it, known that we, RENI S. BERRY and WILLIAM H. MoGnE, citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hairpins, of'which the following is a specification.

' The object of this invention is to provide a hair pin which is so constructed that it may be employed both as a hair pin and as a curler, and which is so formed as to .effect such engagement with the hair as to securely hold it against accidental removal or displacement; yet permit easy removal when so desired.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a view of the hair pin as seen in side elevation.

Fig: 2 is a plan view of same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view illustrating a modified form' of the invention.

In carrying out the invention, the hair pin is formed with a pair of spaced members 5 and 6, each of which consists of a pair of spaced side portions 7-8 and 9]0 with the side portions 7 and 9 and the portions 8 and 10 connected together by tensioned portions 11 and 12 in such manner as to yieldably oppose separation of the members 5 and 6. The members 5 and ,6 extend substantially parallel with each other on straight lines so as to permit their ready insertion in, and removal from the hair.

Various constructions may be resorted to in forming the pin as above described. For example, the pin may be formed of a single piece of wire bent upon itself adjacent to each of its ends with the terminals thereof wound around the intermediate portions as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 and the intermediate portion bent to dispose the returned end portions thus formed in substantially parallel relation to each other as particularly shown in Fig. 1. By this construction. the outer portions of the members 7 and 8 are connected together as are the outer portions 9 and 10.

As a means for adapting the hair pin for use as a curler, the member 5 is formed of a length shorter than the member 6, and the outer end portion of the member 5 is formed of a width less than that of the outer portion of the member 6, so that it may be passed through the latter and the side portions of the member 5 are bowed outwardly intermediate the ends of the members 5 so as to be spaced apart such distance that their outer edges at the bowed portion will overlap the inner edges of the side member 6 adjacent thereto so that on passing the bowed portion of the member 5 between the side portions of the member 6, the latter will extend over and engage the bowed portions and by reason of the spring action of the connection between the members 5 and 6 operate to tightly clamp the hair between the members. The side portions of the members 5 and 6., may be bowed laterally into a series of crimps as indicated M13 and 14 in Fig. 3. The crimped portion 13 of the member 5 substantially corresponds to the crimped portions of the member 6, so that when the hair is gripped between the members 5 and 6 and positioned between the crimped portions 13 and 14, these crimped portions would have either a crimping or curling effect on the hair according to whether the strands merely extend betwee.

the members 5 and 6 or are wrapped aroun the member 5 before engagement by the member 6.

In the operation and application of the invention, when it is desired to employ the device as an ordinary hair pin, it may be inserted into engagement therewith in the customary manner; and when it is desired to secure the device against displacement,

. prising a pair of hair engaging members each of which embodies a pair of spaced side portions connected together at their outer ends and each of said side members resiliently connected together, said side members normally extending substantially parallel with each other and one of said side members being of a length less than the other so that it may be readily passed therethrough. V

5 2. A combined hair pin and curler comprising a pair of hair engaging members eachof which embodies a pair of spaced side portions connected together at their outer ends and each of said side members resili- 10 ently connected together, said side members normally extending substantially parallel with each other and one of said side members being of a length less than the other so that it may be readily passed therethrough, the side-portions of one of said members being bowed outwardly to overlap the side portions of the other member.

RENI s. BERRY. WILLIAM H. McGEE. 

